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Darwin comes to town, how the urban jungle drives evolution, Menno Schilthuizen

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Darwin comes to town, how the urban jungle drives evolution, Menno Schilthuizen

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-280) and index

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Darwin comes to town

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

981968607

Responsibility statement

Menno Schilthuizen

Sub title

how the urban jungle drives evolution

Summary

With human populations growing, we're having an increasing impact on global ecosystems, and nowhere do these impacts overlap as much as they do in cities. "Urban ecologists" study how our manmade environments are changing the evolution of the animals and plants around us. Schilthuizen takes us around the world for an up-close look at just how stunningly flexible and swift-moving natural selection can be. He shows how the wildlife sharing these spaces with us is not just surviving, but evolving ways of thriving

Table Of Contents

City portal -- I. City life. Nature's ultimate ecosystem engineer ; The ant(hropo)-hill ; Downtown ecology ; Urban naturalists ; City slickers ; If I can make it there -- II. Cityscapes. These are the facts ; Urban myths ; So it really is ; Town mouse, country mouse ; Poisoning pigeons in the park ; Bright lights, big city ; But is it really evolution? -- III. City encounters. Close urban encounters ; Self-domestication ; Songs of the city ; Sex and the city ; Turdus urbanicus -- IV. Darwin city. Evolution in a telecoupled world ; Design it with Darwin -- Outskirt

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How the urban jungle drives evolution

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